Educational instruction and library occupations · SOC 25-1032 · Colorado

Engineering teachers, postsecondary in Colorado

Engineering teachers, postsecondary in Colorado earned a median of $104,070 a year in May 2025, below the $109,270 national median for the occupation. Colorado employs 1,100 of them, 0.4 of every 1,000 jobs in the state. Most people entering the occupation nationally do so with a doctoral or professional degree.

Data snapshot: August 21, 2026.

Median annual pay in Colorado

$104,070

Below the $109,270 national median for this occupation

Middle half earn between

$80,370 – $136,070

The 25th to 75th percentile of everyone in the occupation in this state

Employed in Colorado

1,100

0.4 of every 1,000 jobs in the state

Concentration vs national

1.47×

more concentrated here than nationally

Pay rank

#31 of 48

Among the states and DC that released an estimate for this occupation

Typical entry education (U.S.)

Doctoral or professional degree

Federal Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates.

What engineering teachers, postsecondary actually earn in Colorado

The full published wage distribution (May 2025), not one averaged figure. Pay inside a single occupation varies more by experience, employer and setting than most salary pages admit.

10th percentile
$54,330
25th percentile
$80,370
Median
$104,070
75th percentile
$136,070
90th percentile
$171,520

How Colorado compares

  • Against the rest of the country. $104,070 in Colorado against $109,270 nationally for the same occupation, which puts Colorado 31st of the 48 jurisdictions that released an estimate. Neither figure is adjusted for cost of living, so a higher median does not by itself mean more money left over.
  • Against other work in Colorado. $104,070 against $59,800, the median across every occupation in the state — 74% above it.
  • How much of this work is here. The occupation is more concentrated here than nationally (1.47× the national share of employment), 10th of 48 for concentration. Concentration describes where the work is, not how easy it is to be hired.

Where engineering teachers, postsecondary are paid most

The highest published medians for this occupation (May 2025). Before reading it as a place to move, note that these are not cost-of-living adjusted and that the states paying most are often the ones where everything costs most.

How people get into this work

What the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports as typical for entry nationally. Typical is a measurement of the people already doing the work, not a rule: some enter with less and some with more.

Typical entry education

Doctoral or professional degree

Work experience needed

None

On-the-job training

None

Colorado licensing is not in these figures.

Many occupations, including most of health care, teaching, law, accountancy and the skilled trades, require a state licence, certification or registration before you can work. Colorado sets its own, and none of it is part of the federal dataset above, so CampusPin cannot tell you whether this occupation is licensed here. Check the Colorado licensing board before committing to a route, because where an occupation is licensed that requirement, not the typical credential, is the real gate.

What people study to get here, and where in Colorado

Fields the federal CIP-to-SOC crosswalk associates with this occupation, ordered by how many credentials U.S. colleges conferred in each — a measure of how many people take a route, never of how good it is. Studying any of these does not lead only here, and this occupation is entered from other fields too.

Mechanical Engineering: 43,535 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

10 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Graduates of 6 Colorado bachelor's programs in this field earned a typical $93,667 four years after graduating; highest, Colorado School of Mines ($97,087) (2017-19 graduates, measured 2022-23, College Scorecard).

Electrical Engineering: 26,070 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

8 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Graduates of 4 Colorado bachelor's programs in this field earned a typical $108,383 four years after graduating; highest, University of Colorado Colorado Springs ($113,627) (2017-19 graduates, measured 2022-23, College Scorecard).

Civil Engineering: 19,687 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

6 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Graduates of 4 Colorado bachelor's programs in this field earned a typical $93,226 four years after graduating; highest, University of Colorado Boulder ($94,960) (2017-19 graduates, measured 2022-23, College Scorecard).

Biomedical Engineering: 14,504 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

4 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Engineering: 14,266 credentials conferred nationally, mostly associate degrees

13 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25 — see which ones, and what they cost.

Computer Engineering: 13,887 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

6 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25 — see which ones, and what they cost.

Chemical Engineering: 10,466 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

3 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Graduates of 3 Colorado bachelor's programs in this field earned a typical $95,780 four years after graduating; highest, Colorado State University-Fort Collins ($97,271) (2017-19 graduates, measured 2022-23, College Scorecard).

Aerospace Engineering: 10,170 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

4 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Industrial Engineering: 7,840 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

2 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Software Engineering: 6,583 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

2 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Systems Engineering: 4,489 credentials conferred nationally, mostly graduate degrees

6 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25 — see which ones, and what they cost.

Materials Engineering: 3,220 credentials conferred nationally, mostly graduate degrees

3 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Environmental Engineering: 2,886 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

4 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Robotics Engineering: 2,090 credentials conferred nationally, mostly graduate degrees

3 colleges in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Construction Engineering: 1,591 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

1 college in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Agricultural Engineering: 1,096 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees
Nuclear Engineering: 963 credentials conferred nationally, mostly graduate degrees

1 college in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Petroleum Engineering: 739 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees

1 college in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Materials Science: 589 credentials conferred nationally, mostly graduate degrees

1 college in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Marine Engineering: 412 credentials conferred nationally, mostly bachelor's degrees
Mining Engineering: 262 credentials conferred nationally, mostly graduate degrees

1 college in Colorado reported awarding credentials in this field in 2024-25.

Program figures are the median earnings of each program's graduates four years after completing (federal-aid recipients who worked and were not enrolled), not the pay of this occupation; the typical program is the median across the state's programs with at least 30 graduates measured.

This lists colleges that reported conferring credentials in this field to the federal IPEDS completions collection, in both 2023-24 and 2024-25. It does not confirm that any of them is currently admitting students to the program, and a college can appear here after deciding to close it. Confirm with the institution before it affects where you apply.

Colleges in Colorado

Pay is one half of the decision. What it costs to get qualified is the other, and it is the half that varies most between two colleges in the same state.

Source & methodology

State wage and employment figures are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 release. National median pay, projections and typical entry education are from the BLS Employment Projections programme (2024 wages). Both are public domain; credit BLS.

Wages are May 2025 estimates from the federal Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, which asks employers what they pay everyone currently working in the occupation — experienced and new alike. They are not starting salaries, not the earnings of recent graduates, and not adjusted for cost of living, which matters when comparing one state against another. Self-employed workers are not surveyed.

Suggested citation

CampusPin. (2026). Engineering teachers, postsecondary in Colorado, pay and employment. Retrieved from https://campuspin.com/careers/engineering-teachers-postsecondary/in/colorado

See a problem with this data? Report a correction. More education & library occupations.